What a comprehensive exploration. I haven’t read your books (yet), but I’m incredibly interested in your work. I left the classroom last year after 15 years of working with teenagers. This piece validates my gut feeling and experiences with students, especially with what I saw during and post-COVID. It’s the smartphones and social media.
And I actually believe that it’s sleep deprivation that’s taking the largest toll on teen physical and emotional wellbeing. That’s the epidemic I would love to cure.
I volunteer at the high school I left so the students can believe what I said about not leaving because of them, but because of a broken system. When I go in, I still see the same kids falling asleep in classes this year because no one is making sure they sleep. How did we forget about Maslow’s hierarchy in designing an education system? We pretend those bottom layers are optional--we still expect kids to learn who haven’t slept or eaten or felt safe in their environment. It’s insanity.
Hey, do you REALLY want to get to the ROOT of this problem, and throw the proverbial One Ring into the fires of Mordor for good? The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) shows us the way:
Outstanding work Dr Twenge. Your commitment to research and data integrity is appreciated. Your data and research has inspired our empoweringhumility.com venture. We would welcome your double checking of our cognitive bias detection data models when we build them.
What a comprehensive exploration. I haven’t read your books (yet), but I’m incredibly interested in your work. I left the classroom last year after 15 years of working with teenagers. This piece validates my gut feeling and experiences with students, especially with what I saw during and post-COVID. It’s the smartphones and social media.
And I actually believe that it’s sleep deprivation that’s taking the largest toll on teen physical and emotional wellbeing. That’s the epidemic I would love to cure.
I volunteer at the high school I left so the students can believe what I said about not leaving because of them, but because of a broken system. When I go in, I still see the same kids falling asleep in classes this year because no one is making sure they sleep. How did we forget about Maslow’s hierarchy in designing an education system? We pretend those bottom layers are optional--we still expect kids to learn who haven’t slept or eaten or felt safe in their environment. It’s insanity.
Hey, do you REALLY want to get to the ROOT of this problem, and throw the proverbial One Ring into the fires of Mordor for good? The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) shows us the way:
https://www.eff.org/wp/privacy-first-better-way-address-online-harms
Big Tech can go EFF off!
Outstanding work Dr Twenge. Your commitment to research and data integrity is appreciated. Your data and research has inspired our empoweringhumility.com venture. We would welcome your double checking of our cognitive bias detection data models when we build them.